Nathan Mcclaran has successfully defended his master thesis “”ALEXA, IS DYNAMIC CONTENT SAFE?” UNDERSTANDING THE RISKS OF DYNAMIC CONTENT IN THE ALEXA SKILL ECOSYSTEM” today! He is currently working at Viasat.
Big congratulations, Nathan!
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Shreyas has successfully defended his PhD thesis!
Shreyas has successfully defended his PhD thesis “The Success Framework for SMB: Bridging Perceptions, Incentives, And Trust For Usable Cybersecurity” today! He is now working as a professor of practice at the CSE department of Texas A&M University.
Big Congratulations, Shreyas!
Texas A&M Team (led by Jeff) won the 4th place in DARPA AIxCC competition!
Our team, “All You Need Is A Fuzzing Brain”, led by Jeff, was one of seven finalists in DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), placing 4th in the final round. During the competition, we developed a Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) that autonomously discovered 28 security vulnerabilities—including six previously unknown zero-days—in real-world open-source C and Java projects, and successfully patched 14 of them. A technical report is available here. The complete CRS is open source at here.
Big congratulations to the whole team, particularly Jeff and all TAMU students (Ze, Qingxiao, Jianwei, Matthew, etc)!
New awards from the College of Engineering
We are thrilled and honored to have been recognized by the College of Engineering with TEES Faculty Fellow Award and Engineering Genesis Award. Thanks to all our collaborators, and in particular our SUCCESS Lab students. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work with such talented individuals, and I am proud of what we have accomplished together. I look forward to our continued success together.
Patrick has successfully defended his PhD thesis!
Patrick has successfully defended his PhD thesis “THE SERVICE WORKER HIDING IN YOUR BROWSER: NOVEL ATTACKS AND DEFENSES IN APPIFIED WEBSITES”! He will go back to his home country (Thailand) and be an assistant professor at Sisaket Rajabhat University! Congratulations, Patrick!
Yangyong has successfully defended his PhD thesis!
Yangyong has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Understanding and Securing Voice
Assistant Applications”! Big congratulations!
Dr. Gu named an IEEE Fellow (class of 2020)
Dr. Gu is honored to be named an IEEE Fellow (class of 2020), “for contributions to malware detection and security of next generation networks”.
Dr. Gu named an ACM Distinguished Member
Dr. Gu is honored to be named an ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding scientific contributions to computing.
Dr. Gu named a 2019 Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University
Dr. Gu is honored to be named a 2019 Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University.
Lei and Guangliang have successfully defended their PhD thesis!
Lei and Guangliang have successfully defended their PhD thesis! Congratulations, Drs. Xu and Yang!